5. To make copious notes of all things I read.

Projects completed:--

1. Partly.

2. Not at all.

3 and 5, stuck to these pretty closely.

4.e. Read as far as Henry III in Hume.

a. Evolution and involution.

b. Refraction of light--Polarisation partly.

c. Laws of combination--must read them over again.

d. Nothing.

f. Nothing.

I must get on faster than this. I MUST adopt a fixed plan of studies,
for unless this is done I find time slips away without knowing it--and
let me remember this--that it is better to read a little and thoroughly,
than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in
quantity.

(This is about the only resolution I have ever stuck to--1845.)